Visitors to Japan, including Thai nationals, will be required to secure an online immigration approval first before ...

Japan's growing intake of foreign workers has emerged as a key issue taken up by some opposition parties against the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the upcoming general election, but the two sides ...

TOKYO -- Immigration to Japan has emerged as a key political issue ahead of Sunday's upper house of parliament election, after a surge in the number of visitors and residents from overseas in recent ...

A Kurdish high school student in Japan reads a school handout on Oct. 16, 2024, in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture. (Mainichi) SAITAMA -- "I was disappointed. Lots of families have been granted ...

TOKYO -- Voting in Japan's upper house election began Sunday at 7 a.m. across more than 44,000 polling stations, in a ballot where tackling inflation and immigration policy have become key political ...

Japan is tightening its immigration policy amid a demographic crisis, while mass tourism fuels rejection of foreigners. On the day when the debate on the mass regularization of hundreds of thousands ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answers a question during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session in the National Diet on Dec. 12, 2025. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) TOKYO -- The Japanese ...